Прочитав спойлер, я стала орать как Дэниел Брайан: YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!
"Кратко"ВУЛКАН УМЕР. СГОРЕЛ В АТМОСФЕРЕ, МЕДЛЕННО И МУЧИТЕЛЬНО.
"С подробностями"Someone can fill in the major gaps, I literally skimmed the book as it didn't draw me in. The key points are...
The entire Vulkan sections are written kind of in a first person perspective. This is important for the end.
Konrad places Vulkan in a giant maze, Vulkan gets to the middle after much taunting, sees his fancy hammer which is capable of teleporting Vulkan away behind a force field. Konrad takes the bait of Vulkan goading him about him being a pussy and during sparring on Terra says he was holding back and so they fight. Vulkan smashes him in to the hammer force field to release it. Konrad taunts him saying that dampeners will stop him escaping with the teleportation device.
Vulkan kicks the **** out of Konrad, who actually seems to be happy. Vulkan deduces that Konrad has realised he's gone *********** crazy and so wants to die so he doesn't kill him. Vulkan taunts him one last time to say he could always have teleported away, his device was more powerful. Does so.
Book continues with the bits I didn't enjoy of the Space Marines fighting. Salamanders get battered. Erebus has become close to a daemon.
Last two pages of the book are a first person description of a figure falling in space, having their eyes boil in their sockets, having their skin and muscles melt away and their blackened skeleton falling towards a planet.
"Vulkan dies".
Then you get to the afterword where the author basically says that the title was misleading but someone else can take up the mantle of what happens. Suggesting that somewhere along the lines I've missed something that suggests Vulkan doesn't die. But where could he possibly have teleported to when the heretics have done so much damage?